nervous - Story 92875 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery owner beamed, gesturing towards the pieces hung in the pristine white space. "Absolutely exquisite!" she declared, her voice booming. Maya flinched, the sound vibrating through her. Her stomach did a flip, a sudden dizzying moment of imbalance.

Her breath came in shallow, rapid pants. She scanned the gallery, searching for something familiar, something safe. The paintings were all there, but they seemed different, somehow alien. He was showing them off as his own.

The air felt heavy, oppressive, as though the walls were closing in. She found her gaze locked on the exit. She fought the urge to bolt, her legs feeling weighted and unresponsive. She wanted to scream.

Emotion: nervous

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -1.08 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.47

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion nervous. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 nervous stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the nervous emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the nervous vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`worse`	0.229
`trem`	0.203
`😰`	0.203
`😨`	0.201
`緊張`	0.200

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.397
`que`	-0.260
`a`	-0.242
`B`	-0.217
`H`	-0.210